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The UNESCO-Harare Documentation Centre is a specialised resource centre primarily created to provide information concerning UNESCO's activities to researchers, scholars, professionals and other related institutions. In promoting the quest for knowledge and disseminating accurate information, the Centre also hopes to foster better understanding to members of the public of UNESCO's activities. The Documentation Centre has been computerised and houses more than 5800 materials, which include documents, monographs and reports. The Centre also subscribes to over 100 journals dealing with education, science, technology and culture: http://www.harare.unesco.org//pages/documentation%20centre.htm

Arusha International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is a legal and reference library develped most recently in the Judicial and Legal Services Division of CTR, under the Deputy-Registrar. Comprising the main library in Arusha, a branch library at the Office of the Prosecutor in Kigali, and the Outreach Information & Documentation Centre, the unit provides, assists, and makes available to the Trial Chambers, the Registry, the Office of the Prosecutor, Defence counsel, legal officers and all the staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda the information and documentation they require to accomplish their duties: http://www.ictr.org/default.htm.

The Sergio Vieira de Mello United Nations Library at Nairobi is a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies based in Nairobi, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It was officially opened on 30 June 2004. The Library’s purpose is to develop and maintain a collection of scientific and technical information on the global state of the environment, human settlements and UN-related issues which will assist the staff of the United Nations and outside users in analyzing trends, assessing problems and promoting activities leading to environmentally sound development. In addition, it acts as a depository library for the United Nations and some of its specialized agencies. http://www.unep.org/library/ or http://www.unhabitat.org/library/

The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Zimbabwe is the principal local source of public information about the United Nations system. As an active link between the Organization and local media, educational institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UNIC provides up-to-date public information material on the aims and activities of the United Nations in political, economic, social and humanitarian fields to a diverse local audience: http://www.unic.org.zw/ and http://www.un.org/aroundworld/unics/directory/harare.htm

The UNESCO Library provides reference and information services, including online searches, to the Organization as a whole, as well as to the general public with an interest in UNESCO's fields of competence: http://intranet.unesco.org/infos/library/index.shtml.

ECA - Economic Commission for Africa is one of the oldest, comprehensive, and richest library collections in the African region dealing exclusively with the social, economic, political and development concerns of the region: http://www.uneca.org/

The network of United Nations information centres (UNICs), services (UNIS) and offices (UNOs) links the Headquarters with people around the world: http://www.un.org/aroundworld/unics/

UN-System of Organizations provides an organised index of websites of the United Nations System of Organizations: http://www.unsystem.org/

UN Bibliographic Information System (UNBISnet): contains a catalogue of United Nations (UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva: http://unbisnet.un.org

UN Cataloguing and Public Access System (UNCAPS) provides a web interface to the electronic resources of the libraries of UN system of organizations, and offers powerful search and retrieval functionality - it facilitates a single point of access to library catalogs, indexes and abstract databases, library holdings, links to full-text resources, and archives: http://uncaps.unsystem.org/

UN Libraries Research Gateway provides links to UN libraries, topical resources, Agency documentation, general & specialised resources, UN web sites and other collections : http://www.un.org/unlibraries/UNLeng/unlibresearch.htm

UN Library Network is prepared and maintained by the Department of Public Information (DPI), Dag Hammarskjöld Library (DHL). It provides global information on UN depository libraries, UN & UN system small and field libraries, and UN offices libraries. : http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/sflib/libnet.htm